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University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. IXII
NO. 37
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1970
Firing of black employees to be protested at rally
By GENE SHELBY
A rally protesting the firing of three black employees by the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) will be held in front of the Hebrew Center Monday at noon.
The rally is being sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Community Council for Justice and Construction.
Reverend Jesse L. Boyd, progress coordinator of Operation Breadbasket, a division of the SCLC, said that the employees were fired without proper notification and redress, which caused them to look at the personnel practices and other practices of the agency.
Boyd said that the redevelopment agency was operating illegally in the sense that the community advisory council had not been elected but was appointed by Mayor Sam Yorty. Boyd called the group a rubber stamp council.
Boyd said that the CRA fired the three men for not functioning properly on the job and didn’t inform them of their right to appeal.
One of the demands placed before the agency calls for the reinstatement of Harry Weathers, Oscar Bowen and Ralph Jerrett until a fair hearing is held.
It has also been asked that all rehabilitation projects within the Hoover Redevelopment Project cease work immediately until elections are
properly held on a one-to-one vote basis to comply with federal regulations for resident participation in the program.
The groups also demand that 50 percent of the top 10 policymaking jobs in the CRA be turned over to blacks and minority groups beginning with not less than the number two position.
The groups also want a community review board established to review the CRA members appointed by Mayor Yorty and conduct a CRA quarterly progress evaluation to be made by the review board.
Boyd contends that none of the residents are getting any benefit from the Hoover project and that the federal government has put the money into the hands of the mayor and the people who have allowed the situation to develop.
He said that USC has lobbied the government into appropriating $10 million for the project along with 5 million dollars from private sources to improve the area surrounding USC to accommodate the students. He added that the university was spending an additional $84 million to uplift its own image.
Boyd said another purpose of the rally is to make people ask whether the residents being removed should get some of the contracts and not be discriminated against in the redevelopment project.
THIS IS A PHOTO ABOUT ALICE’S—REMEMBER ALICE S?
Maybe a returning hallucination will cause her second coming
Photo by Tony Korody
You could get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
They once talked of building a human wall around Alice’s when the bulldozers finally came-“they” meaning Alice's Army, the occupants of the hallucinogenic lifestyle fort that bumps out of the Hoover Street skyline.
But yesterday they began carrying away the suspended manikins, crucifixes and other pieces of hock art. And tomorrow night after the one final party or celebration of life. Alice's will surrender non-violently and become a prisoner of a redevelopment war.
Alice's, which sprouted up
three years ago out of the head of Tim Dillenbeck and the words of an Arlo Guthrie song, lost its battle for survival against the Hoover Redevelopment Project. By Monday all traces of it will probably be gone.
Alice’s will be remembered as the place where those who were into consciousness expansion, communal living or running away, drifted in.
It was the place where the freedom-prone gazed with amazement at the Los Angeles Police Department’s intolerance of kids who allowed bubbles to pass perpetually over their heads rather than through them.
It was the place where hassles and suspicions of illegality rose from the open pit fire and the afterglow of possession ot hallucinogens in people’s eyes.
Busy nights meant music louder than the imagination coming from Dillenbeck s menagerie of speakers and a black magic dancer named Lucifer moving through a hypnosis. Deserted nights meant that Alice’s Army had a cause to go running off to or a communal urge to vanish.
Tomorrow Alice’s is being carried away to an asylum of cultural storage (i.e. a warehouse), but she may return somedav...
Anarchists to head Festival of Liberation
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
Some of the brightest minds bent on liberation and anarchy will flock to campus tomorrow and Sunday for the Annual Festival of Liberation.
Anarchist author Paul Goodman and Thomas Szasz, the ‘rebel psychiatrist,’ are among the numerous featured speakers for the event, which is being sponsored by Rampart College, the California Libertarian Alliance and the Action Coalition for Freedom.
The festival, centered in Bovard Auditorium, will focus on the idea of knocking out oppression and authoritarian cultures by libertarian social revolution and the idea that violent revolution will not eliminate the authoritarians, but instead will trade them in for newer models.
Like a master plan for a utopian takeover, the festival will proceed as follows:
At 9 a.m. tomorrow, Lowell Ponte, freelance media man and contributing editor of the Daily Trojan will open the festival and serve as its moderator.
Skye D’Aureous, a cybernetics specialist, will speak on “Alternatives to the State” at 9:10, and Leiflumen, education expert, will speak on “Liberation and the University of Free Order” at 9:30.
Robert LeFevre, the president of Rampart College and a prominent libertarian intellectual, will make an appearance at 10:15. LeFevre contends that “there are only two moral rules in society: one, hurt no man, and two, after that, do as you please.’’ He will speak tomorrow on “Liberating the Revolution.”
Murray Rothbard, a New York professor-historian-economist, will tell his “Confessions of a Middle-of-the-Road Extremist,” at
11 a.m. Rothbard is an advocate for the realization that the government is conditioning the American public to believe that when the government commits acts of violence, it is not really violence.
Following a performance of Songs of Liberation and a lunch break, Robert Love, president of the Love Box Co., will speak on “Force-Business and Education,” at2 p.m. (Continued on page 3)
Small turnout for Hersh criticized
A few members of the ASSC expressed serious doubts about the intellectual and social level of the USC campus after Wednesday's poor turnout for a speech by Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour M. Hersh. Faculty members of the Great Issues Forum also showed concern when only about 100 people appeared at the talk with less than five of those from the faculty.
“I guess we have to book Johnny Carson, Soupy Sales, Howdy Doody and topless-bottomless dancers all at one time in order to get a decent turnout,” said Jack McNamara, ASSC independent representative and a member of the Great Issues Forum.
“The Greeks won at marathon, the Huns were stopped at Vienna and the United States won in World War II. Tell them (the students) we’ll bring them up to date with the rest of world news tomorrow,” McNamara continued.
“We’ve had more and better quality speakers than ever before. This really raises questions about the intellectual quality of this school,” said Stan DiOrio, ASSC graduate representative.
“If this continues, we guarantee that if we bring Nixon to campus five people will show up,” DiOrio said.
He then said that if anyone had any better ideas as to what world figures could draw crowds at USC, they should contact the ASSC immediately.
William McCoard, speech professor and the chairman of the Great Issues Forum wasn’t quite so critical of the students.
“You can’t chain people into coming,” he said. “You can only make them aware of what they missed.
“The Great Issues Forum is designed to try to extend education, to take it beyond the classroom, to take it beyond the routine.”
He said that because USC is in a large city and because there are so many other activities scheduled on campus, small turnouts could indicate that there was a lot competing for student attention.
McCoard said that he was always disappointed at the turnout for Great Issues Forum speakers, but that he didn’t blame the students--they couldn't be forced. “It's a matter of how can we turn them on.” he said.
Martin Siegel, professor of engineering and another Forum member, gave a different reason for the small audience.
“I don’t think it was the fault of the students—I think it was the advertising of the program.”
He said that the fact that the Daily Trojan didn't publish Monday and Wednesday didn’t help.
“Also it’s possible that we’ve had too many good speakers," he said. “Maybe we have become relatively numb to top-name speakers.”

University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. IXII
NO. 37
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1970
Firing of black employees to be protested at rally
By GENE SHELBY
A rally protesting the firing of three black employees by the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) will be held in front of the Hebrew Center Monday at noon.
The rally is being sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Urban League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Community Council for Justice and Construction.
Reverend Jesse L. Boyd, progress coordinator of Operation Breadbasket, a division of the SCLC, said that the employees were fired without proper notification and redress, which caused them to look at the personnel practices and other practices of the agency.
Boyd said that the redevelopment agency was operating illegally in the sense that the community advisory council had not been elected but was appointed by Mayor Sam Yorty. Boyd called the group a rubber stamp council.
Boyd said that the CRA fired the three men for not functioning properly on the job and didn’t inform them of their right to appeal.
One of the demands placed before the agency calls for the reinstatement of Harry Weathers, Oscar Bowen and Ralph Jerrett until a fair hearing is held.
It has also been asked that all rehabilitation projects within the Hoover Redevelopment Project cease work immediately until elections are
properly held on a one-to-one vote basis to comply with federal regulations for resident participation in the program.
The groups also demand that 50 percent of the top 10 policymaking jobs in the CRA be turned over to blacks and minority groups beginning with not less than the number two position.
The groups also want a community review board established to review the CRA members appointed by Mayor Yorty and conduct a CRA quarterly progress evaluation to be made by the review board.
Boyd contends that none of the residents are getting any benefit from the Hoover project and that the federal government has put the money into the hands of the mayor and the people who have allowed the situation to develop.
He said that USC has lobbied the government into appropriating $10 million for the project along with 5 million dollars from private sources to improve the area surrounding USC to accommodate the students. He added that the university was spending an additional $84 million to uplift its own image.
Boyd said another purpose of the rally is to make people ask whether the residents being removed should get some of the contracts and not be discriminated against in the redevelopment project.
THIS IS A PHOTO ABOUT ALICE’S—REMEMBER ALICE S?
Maybe a returning hallucination will cause her second coming
Photo by Tony Korody
You could get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
They once talked of building a human wall around Alice’s when the bulldozers finally came-“they” meaning Alice's Army, the occupants of the hallucinogenic lifestyle fort that bumps out of the Hoover Street skyline.
But yesterday they began carrying away the suspended manikins, crucifixes and other pieces of hock art. And tomorrow night after the one final party or celebration of life. Alice's will surrender non-violently and become a prisoner of a redevelopment war.
Alice's, which sprouted up
three years ago out of the head of Tim Dillenbeck and the words of an Arlo Guthrie song, lost its battle for survival against the Hoover Redevelopment Project. By Monday all traces of it will probably be gone.
Alice’s will be remembered as the place where those who were into consciousness expansion, communal living or running away, drifted in.
It was the place where the freedom-prone gazed with amazement at the Los Angeles Police Department’s intolerance of kids who allowed bubbles to pass perpetually over their heads rather than through them.
It was the place where hassles and suspicions of illegality rose from the open pit fire and the afterglow of possession ot hallucinogens in people’s eyes.
Busy nights meant music louder than the imagination coming from Dillenbeck s menagerie of speakers and a black magic dancer named Lucifer moving through a hypnosis. Deserted nights meant that Alice’s Army had a cause to go running off to or a communal urge to vanish.
Tomorrow Alice’s is being carried away to an asylum of cultural storage (i.e. a warehouse), but she may return somedav...
Anarchists to head Festival of Liberation
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
Some of the brightest minds bent on liberation and anarchy will flock to campus tomorrow and Sunday for the Annual Festival of Liberation.
Anarchist author Paul Goodman and Thomas Szasz, the ‘rebel psychiatrist,’ are among the numerous featured speakers for the event, which is being sponsored by Rampart College, the California Libertarian Alliance and the Action Coalition for Freedom.
The festival, centered in Bovard Auditorium, will focus on the idea of knocking out oppression and authoritarian cultures by libertarian social revolution and the idea that violent revolution will not eliminate the authoritarians, but instead will trade them in for newer models.
Like a master plan for a utopian takeover, the festival will proceed as follows:
At 9 a.m. tomorrow, Lowell Ponte, freelance media man and contributing editor of the Daily Trojan will open the festival and serve as its moderator.
Skye D’Aureous, a cybernetics specialist, will speak on “Alternatives to the State” at 9:10, and Leiflumen, education expert, will speak on “Liberation and the University of Free Order” at 9:30.
Robert LeFevre, the president of Rampart College and a prominent libertarian intellectual, will make an appearance at 10:15. LeFevre contends that “there are only two moral rules in society: one, hurt no man, and two, after that, do as you please.’’ He will speak tomorrow on “Liberating the Revolution.”
Murray Rothbard, a New York professor-historian-economist, will tell his “Confessions of a Middle-of-the-Road Extremist,” at
11 a.m. Rothbard is an advocate for the realization that the government is conditioning the American public to believe that when the government commits acts of violence, it is not really violence.
Following a performance of Songs of Liberation and a lunch break, Robert Love, president of the Love Box Co., will speak on “Force-Business and Education,” at2 p.m. (Continued on page 3)
Small turnout for Hersh criticized
A few members of the ASSC expressed serious doubts about the intellectual and social level of the USC campus after Wednesday's poor turnout for a speech by Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour M. Hersh. Faculty members of the Great Issues Forum also showed concern when only about 100 people appeared at the talk with less than five of those from the faculty.
“I guess we have to book Johnny Carson, Soupy Sales, Howdy Doody and topless-bottomless dancers all at one time in order to get a decent turnout,” said Jack McNamara, ASSC independent representative and a member of the Great Issues Forum.
“The Greeks won at marathon, the Huns were stopped at Vienna and the United States won in World War II. Tell them (the students) we’ll bring them up to date with the rest of world news tomorrow,” McNamara continued.
“We’ve had more and better quality speakers than ever before. This really raises questions about the intellectual quality of this school,” said Stan DiOrio, ASSC graduate representative.
“If this continues, we guarantee that if we bring Nixon to campus five people will show up,” DiOrio said.
He then said that if anyone had any better ideas as to what world figures could draw crowds at USC, they should contact the ASSC immediately.
William McCoard, speech professor and the chairman of the Great Issues Forum wasn’t quite so critical of the students.
“You can’t chain people into coming,” he said. “You can only make them aware of what they missed.
“The Great Issues Forum is designed to try to extend education, to take it beyond the classroom, to take it beyond the routine.”
He said that because USC is in a large city and because there are so many other activities scheduled on campus, small turnouts could indicate that there was a lot competing for student attention.
McCoard said that he was always disappointed at the turnout for Great Issues Forum speakers, but that he didn’t blame the students--they couldn't be forced. “It's a matter of how can we turn them on.” he said.
Martin Siegel, professor of engineering and another Forum member, gave a different reason for the small audience.
“I don’t think it was the fault of the students—I think it was the advertising of the program.”
He said that the fact that the Daily Trojan didn't publish Monday and Wednesday didn’t help.
“Also it’s possible that we’ve had too many good speakers," he said. “Maybe we have become relatively numb to top-name speakers.”